Everybody wants to be somebody fancy. Even if they're shy.

One of the things I love about our source text as Christians, the Bible is that it teaches us not to avoid conflict. And it teaches us that before the fall of man, in Paradise, there was conflict. God wants conflict to be a part of your life.

the times we worked harder to make the day stand out. our story demanded that we change and so we did.

Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.

I think that's the true litmus test for someone who has become closer to Jesus: their heart is more loving, accepting, childlike, less believing that they have all the answers and more believing in Him.

When you write, you're alone in a room. And when someone reads a book, they're alone in a room, too, usually. It's a really intimate exchange. And so people ask me where I get the boldness to talk about this or that, but I didn't feel like it required any sort of courage, because I was alone. Sometimes it feels weird for people to read it.

We don't need as much as we have. Hardly any of us need as much money as we have. It's true what they say about the best things in life being free.